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Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.93,0:00:10.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the 28th of July 1914 the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.35,0:00:14.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and history will remember the name of one Serb from Bosnia.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.42,0:00:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gavrilo Princip was born on July 13, 1894 in Obljaj near Bosansko Grahovo and died on April 28, 1918 in a Czech prison Teresienstadt.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.25,0:00:48.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a member of a secret organization Young Bosnia he assassinated the Austro-Hungarian Crown Price Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on June 28th, 1914.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.97,0:00:54.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Franz Ferdinand arrived to Sarajevo leading military forces that were executing maneuvers around the city.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.11,0:01:02.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Serbian population of the city viewed his appearance as the head of the military command as provocation, since all this took place on St. Vitus Day.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.54,0:01:08.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During the investigation, Austro-Hungarian authorities came to the conclusion that the weapons used in the attack came from Serbia.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.07,0:01:20.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Although the official government of Serbia was not connected with this incident, but some people in high places, members of the organization Unity or Death—Black Hand—
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.77,0:01:25.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Austrian authorities had taken advantage of the current situation to deliver an ultimatum to Serbia.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.99,0:01:36.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Serbian authorities responded positively on all points of the ultimatum, except for one, which required sending the Austro-Hungarian investigative authorities into the territory of the Kingdom of Serbia.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.35,0:01:44.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The government of Austria-Hungary used this to declare war to Serbia, which soon escalated into the First World War.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.96,0:01:51.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to the original plan of the assassination, there were six perpetrators.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.05,0:02:01.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of these six, four did not do anything during the first pass of the imperial procession, when Nedeljko Čabrinović’s bomb missed the car with Ferdinand,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.84,0:02:06.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but lightly wounded Colonel Eric von Merizzi and Count Boos-Waldeck.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.72,0:02:10.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During the return of the imperial procession, Gavrilo Princip successfully assassinated the Archduke.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.04,0:02:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the trial it was established that the assassins had no intention of killing Sophie Chotek.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.06,0:02:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The weapon that Princip used was a Belgian-made 7,65 ×17mm Fabrique Nationale model 1910 semi-automatic pistol
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.48,0:02:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and apparently it was given to the members of Young Bosnia by Dragutin Dimitrijević - Apis.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.14,0:02:40.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the time of the assassination, Gavrilo Princip was considered too young for the death penalty and so he was sentenced to 20 years of prison where he was tortured.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.64,0:02:46.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, Gavrilo Princip's grave is in the Heroes of St. Vitus Day chapel in Sarajevo.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.06,0:02:56.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The car, Gavrilo's gun and Franz Ferdinand's bloody uniform are in the Military Museum in Vienna.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.89,0:03:02.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bullet that killed Ferdinand is displayed in the Konopište castle in the Czech Republic.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.47,0:03:09.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gavrilo's prison sentence was served in the Czech Terezin, where he died of tuberculosis on April 28th, 1918, just a little before the end of WWI.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.86,0:03:16.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the end, he was weakened by poor prison conditions and weighed only 40 kilograms (88lbs).
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.66,0:03:27.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The assassination of Austrian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand was an historical event of tremendous consequence resulting in WWI,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.16,0:03:32.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire followed by the creation of new states –Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.38,0:03:38.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the reclaiming of significant territories by neighboring countries that Austria-Hungary and Turkey had occupied and annexed.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.91,0:03:48.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It would be an understatement to say that the only reason for the Great War was the killing of Ferdinand, as there were a number of other reasons and plans for war by the great powers.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.17,0:03:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Germany, for example, wanted to win back its lost colonies; there was a rivalry between France and England for supremacy in Europe
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.08,0:04:00.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and both had a hostile attitude towards German demands for reclaiming its colonies; the desire for independence by small nations;
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.20,0:04:08.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unresolved border issues of Germany, Italy, and Turkey with neighboring countries, etc. .
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.82,0:04:13.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The killing of Ferdinand was just the spark that ignited the flame of war.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.53,0:04:23.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gavrilo Princip was, no doubt, a conspirator and member of the secret organization Young Bosnia, a Serbian nationalist youth organization in occupied Bosnia.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.51,0:04:30.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This organization was protected and supplied by the Serbian Black Hand secret organization with the slogan "unite or die,"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.26,0:04:37.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was common for similar radical organizations in the Balkans whose members aspired to the unification of the South Slavic peoples.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.46,0:04:45.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A former officer of the Serbian army who led the conspirators that killed King Aleksandar Obrenović and Queen Draga—
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.82,0:04:51.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dragutin Dimitrijević nicknamed Apis—had been the head of the organization since its founding in 1903
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.67,0:04:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,together with officers Ciganović and Tankosić.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.30,0:04:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite a lot of evidence and information about preparations for the assassination,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.54,0:05:02.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Austro-Hungarian government took no serious action to prevent it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.42,0:05:06.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Archduke Franz Ferdinand himself, raised in a very militaristic manner,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.64,0:05:09.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an excellent athlete and fencer in his youth and a passionate hunter, otherwise a brutal and crude man,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.46,0:05:15.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did not pay much attention to the information about the possible assassination.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.30,0:05:20.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A year earlier, there had also been an attempted assassination in Paris without consequences,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.19,0:05:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but his unpopularity and the serious threats did not phase him much.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.29,0:05:31.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Regarding his political attitudes, Ferdinand was one of the bigger Serb-haters in the dual monarchy.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.28,0:05:36.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Participation in the upcoming military exercises, which were organized by General Potiorek on the banks of the Drina river,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.36,0:05:41.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a great opportunity to provoke the Serbian "peasants", as he called them in translation.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.76,0:05:45.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For him, Serbia was a country of bandits, and the only thing in it that was worthwhile
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.28,0:05:50.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in his opinion, was the wild boar hunting grounds, about which people told him.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.30,0:05:56.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To liquidate this person for patriotic reasons, two days before the assassination
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.64,0:06:03.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the group of conspirators in Sarajevo grew by three men who were supposed to give support to the main assassins.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.51,0:06:09.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On St. Vitus' day, June 28, 1914, on the way across the center of Sarajevo
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.90,0:06:15.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the hotel to the location of the formal troop review and beginning of the military exercises,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.47,0:06:17.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the assassins tried to approach the procession of cars,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.10,0:06:21.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but due to a big crowd only Nedeljko Čabrinović was able to throw two bombs.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.80,0:06:26.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They only lightly wounded Colonel Eric Von Merizzi and Count Von Boos-Waldeck,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.70,0:06:31.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but missed Ferdinand, who did not want to miss the rest of the parade.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.93,0:06:36.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A little later, due to the driver's mistake of taking the wrong route,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.32,0:06:41.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gavrilo Princip was able to approach the car, pull the trigger, and fire three bullets,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.93,0:06:49.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of which fatally wounded Ferdinand, and another by chance wounded his wife Sophie, which was not planned.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.32,0:06:53.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ferdinand died within a few minutes on the way to the hospital
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.81,0:06:56.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his wife Sophie during an attempted operation in the hospital.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.47,0:07:03.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gavrilo Princip was immediately arrested and within a few days all six assassins were arrested.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.100,0:07:07.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not a single one of them died, although they all took cyanide pills,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.08,0:07:09.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which were given to them in the event of their arrest.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.16,0:07:13.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is assumed that by standing too long, or in some other way, the pills lost their properties.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.23,0:07:20.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They all admitted to participation in the conspiracy but denied that they had intentions to kill Arch-Duchess Sophie.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.38,0:07:25.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the assassination was carried out, Gavrilo Princip was 19 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.92,0:07:30.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the monarchy, the legal age of adulthood was 21. Princip was too young for the death penalty,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.38,0:07:35.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so he was sentenced to 20 years in prison, where he was exposed to heavy torture.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.39,0:07:41.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He served his sentence in a Czech prison in the Terezin fortress, where he died at age 25 of tuberculosis on
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.80,0:07:46.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,April 28, 1918, a little before the end of WWI.